Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...

John
Whitmer likely created this heading when he copied the text into
Revelation Book 1.

Hearken O ye people which Profess my name saith the lord your
God for Behold mine anger is kindeled against the rebelious & they
shall know mine arm & mine indignation in the day of visitation &
of wrath upon the Nations & he that will not take up his cross &
follow me & keep my commandments the same shall not be saved behold I
the Lord commandeth & he that will not obey shall be cut off in mine
own due time
[p. 91]

Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...

John
Whitmer likely created this heading when he copied the text into
Revelation Book 1.

Hearken O ye people which Profess my name saith the lord your
God for Behold mine anger is kindeled against the rebelious & they
shall know mine arm & mine indignation in the day of visitation &
of wrath upon the Nations & he that will not take up his cross &
follow me & keep my commandments the same shall not be saved behold I
the Lord commandeth & he that will not obey shall be cut off in mine
own due time
[p. 91]

When he copied the following
revelation into Revelation Book 1,
John
Whitmer

27 Aug. 1802–11 July 1878. Farmer, stock raiser, newspaper editor. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman. Member of German Reformed Church, Fayette, Seneca Co., New York. Baptized by Oliver Cowdery, June 1829, most likely in Seneca...

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...

but Thayer could not get ready as soon as Thomas wanted that he should.” Thayer
and Marsh had been commanded in a 6 June
1831 revelation to “take their Journey also preaching the word by the
way unto this same land [Missouri],”1

and nine days later, Marsh was apparently ready to depart with others traveling
to Missouri while Thayer was not. An earlier revelation directed Thayer to
board with
Joseph
Smith Sr.

12 July 1771–14 Sept. 1840. Cooper, farmer, teacher, merchant. Born at Topsfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Asael Smith and Mary Duty. Nominal member of Congregationalist church at Topsfield. Married to Lucy Mack by Seth Austin, 24 Jan. 1796, at Tunbridge...

’s farm. That same
revelation directed that “all the Brethren immediately assemble together &
put up an house for my Servent Ezra” on Williams’s property. It also instructed
Thayer to “humble himself & at the conference meeting he shall be ordained
unto power from on high & he shall go from thence (if he be obedient unto
my commandments) & proclaim my Gospel unto the western regions with my
Servents that must go forth even unto the borders of the
Lamanit[e]s

A term used in the Book of Mormon to refer to the descendants or followers of Laman, as well as those who later identified themselves as Lamanites because they did not believe in the religious traditions of their ancestors. According to JS and the Book of...

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

12 July 1771–14 Sept. 1840. Cooper, farmer, teacher, merchant. Born at Topsfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Asael Smith and Mary Duty. Nominal member of Congregationalist church at Topsfield. Married to Lucy Mack by Seth Austin, 24 Jan. 1796, at Tunbridge...

Because the revelation
asserts that “there shall no divisions be made upon the land,” Thayer may have
previously requested that before his departure for
Missouri

Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...

,
a title be assigned to him for the portion of land he had paid for. The
revelation also suggests that he might have requested that the money he had
paid toward the debt be returned to him if he was not assigned title.

Area settled, beginning 1785. Formed from Windsor Township, Apr. 1821. Population in 1830 about 2,400. Villages within township included Harpursville, Nineveh, and Colesville. Susquehanna River ran through eastern portion of township. JS worked for Joseph...

An ecclesiastical organization of church members in a particular locale. A branch was generally smaller than a stake or a conference. Branches were also referred to as churches, as in “the Church of Shalersville.” In general, a branch was led by a presiding...

Located about twenty miles northeast of Kirtland, Ohio. Settled 1800. Surveyed 1809. Incorporated 1817. Population in 1830 about 700. Population in 1840 about 1,000. Latter-day Saints from Colesville, New York, were directed to settle in area on 759 acres...

Ca. 1795–after 1860. Blacksmith. Born in Virginia. Married first Polly. Lived in Morgan Township, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, by 1820. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, by 1826. Supervisor of highways, 1827, and fence viewer, 1829, in Kirtland. Baptized into ...

Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Mormon missionaries...

Both men received further instruction in this
15 June revelation. Recent difficulties
between the Colesville, New York, believers and landowner
Leman
Copley

Ca. 1781–20 Apr./May 1862. Born in Connecticut. Son of Samuel Copley. Moved to Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vermont, by 1800. Married Sally Cooley. Joined United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers). Moved to Thompson Township, Geauga Co...

, who withdrew his offer to allow them to settle on his property,
prompted a 10 June revelation that directed
the Colesville group to move to Missouri. That revelation further instructed
the Thompson members to “appoint whom you will to be your leader & to pay
moneyes for you.”5

Upon learning that revelations had both dictated
their removal to Missouri and assigned their leader Newel Knight to leave them
for a preaching mission, some of the members in Thompson may have voiced
concerns to
JS.6

The
compiler of
Newel
Knight’s history in 1871 included this note: “I will here introduce the
facts as nearly as I am able to glean them. On taking the
revelation to
Thompson, concerning the
removal of the Saints from there to
Missouri,
which gave them the privilege of appointing their own leader; and also the
revelation appointing him to his mission, it appears that the Saints were
grieved at the thought of brother Knight leaving them, for he had been with
them from their first acquaintanc with the Church, and they leaned on him, as
their guide and appointed him as their leader, from Thompson to Missouri. This
reached the prophet
Joseph’s ears, and in a revelation . . . brother
Newel’s mission was revoked, and he was sustaind in leading them.” It is
possible that this reconstruction of events was made with the benefit of
sources that are no longer extant. (Knight, History, 310a–310b.)

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

27 Aug. 1802–11 July 1878. Farmer, stock raiser, newspaper editor. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman. Member of German Reformed Church, Fayette, Seneca Co., New York. Baptized by Oliver Cowdery, June 1829, most likely in Seneca...